(There, I'm doing it again. This'll easily lose the box office this weekend and go under the radar. Don't let this go under your radar. Go see it. Immediately. -FL)

This is in my top 3 of the year so far and I can't wait to see it again when it gets released in November. The version my nigga and I saw tonight was almost finished. They had a temp score (alot of the music cues were from Fincher' Dragon Tattoo and Anderson's There Will Be Blood) and a few shots need color correction. And they need ending credits. But yea McDonagh really out did himself here. Ten times better than "In Bruges" and really fucking funny and brutal. Of course the violence and the comedy go hand in hand. And the all-star cast just kills it. Go in blind, trust me it's that much better. This is definitely gonna be a cult film as the audience I was in was dying from laughter the whole time and ate this shit up. But let's be real this is not gonna set the box office on fire. But yea McDonagh really stepped his game up on this guys. Trust me.

And the last time I liked Colin Ferrell in a film was In Brugs.

>But
>let's be real this is not gonna set the box office on fire

Refuse to read the original post because I wanna go in totally blind. McDonagh is one of my favorite writers alive.

Blind

Total blindness.

To be fair, I've been essentially ignoring all writings on all movies the last couple months.

anything. LOL. But yea the less you know the more rewarding this is.

For those going to Toronto check in cause I want know the reaction there too.

I don't think I can afford it with my LA move coming up. Sigh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuNfq5vN-w&feature=player_embedded

It's better to go into this blind, but for what's it worth the trailer doesn't even scratch the surface of this film.

that whole film was hilarious
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at least not for me initially

Then again I didn't really like In Bruges that much when I first saw it either. That one has grown on me a lot & this might as well.

Loved the opening scene. Colin is cool playin the straight man for the most part. Sammy Rock kills it as always. Really wish the chics had more screen time tho. I probably catch another screening next week now that I know what to expect.

> Really wish
>the chics had more screen time tho

This is McDonagh's career of writing women summed up in these character choices.

junot diaz touched on this in an interview
i was glad he gave a side swipe at it as well


http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/the-baseline-is-you-suck-junot-diaz-on-men-who-write-about-women/262163/
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

Maybe I'm wrong but I just get that feeling from these two movies.

All I really needed was at least one more scene w/ the Bond boo. Preferably a similar one to Abbie C's last scene which really stuck with me for obvious reasons.

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but then i loved in bruges

omg i really enjoyed this film
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Funny, smart, suspenseful, GREAT acting.
Really enjoyed it.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

And Sam Rockwell and Chris Walken speak his language SO WELL.

I love what he did here. It's less of a traditional movie than In Bruges and chock full of meta commentary about his career choices, which, as a huge McDonagh nerd, I LOVED.

The first half is fun (probably plays much better upon repeat viewing after knowing what transpires in the second half), but the second half is GOLDEN. Not since Adaptation has meta filmmaking worked so wonderfully.

And Rockwell. And Walken. Both brilliant.

The others are good too (I especially liked the opening scene with McDonagh theater standby Michael Stuhlbarg and Michael Pitt), but Rockwell and Walken are transcendent. They just get it. Simple and plain. They manage to find the soulful and touching in the profane and repetitive.

Does any of this make me tear up the way Gleeson's sacrifice does in In Bruges or does it make me howl every time the way the "The Tower Is Closed" or the "your cunt fucking kids" or "You're an inanimate fucking object" bits in In Bruges do? Maybe not upon first visit, no. Like I said, it's far less traditional.

But I reeeeeeally look forward to revisiting this a bunch.

And watching Argo today
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Really really enjoyed it.

not sure if that's saying much, i've seen: the master, looper,
and this. it was a very pleasant surprise and a highly
entertaining flick.


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"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"

and that's supposed to be what hooks you on the movie. If I see a tidal wave of praise I might peep it, but right now that Argo post got me setting my alarm for tomorrow.

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don't go off the trailer its horrible and didn't do the film justice.

I had a fun experience watching this in theater I saw it in , the viewing audience totally got the dark humor and was cracking up left and right and that really added to my experience. Everyone in the theater was cracking up but this group of older people were cracking up the most and I was like -wow , especially being a 30 something young guy...lol, their might have been some psychopaths in the audience with me...lol

But overall great follow up for McDonagh's "In Bruges" - Rockwell - great performance, Walken - zen like performance..lol, Farrell - great job as the lead but I guess by the end of the film you could say Rockwell's character was more of a lead, Harrelson - really sunk his teeth into the part and it showed

So overall don't trust the trailer just watch the film for yourself and enjoy.
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from start to finish...I loved it.

Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson were standouts.

Colin Farrell was on point and at his best...

McDonagh turned in another solid screenplay/directing effort and i'm hoping he manages to slip in for a nomination like he did with IN BRUGES...

It won't do well in the theaters (with Argo, Sinister, Taken 2, etc. a movie was going to fall by the wayside and/or bomb, it would be this one) which sucks because it's good and people *SHOULD* see this and support it.

At times the dialogue seemed really awkward.

Everything else was fucking great though.

i felt it dragged after it hit its mid way point, and Sam was a bit over kill by the end, but overall very fun.

also enjoyed LA and LA County looking like it/themselves

the meta narrative stuff/thing was a bit clunky and over done at times for me, but was interesting to see it play itself out.

the way Walken looked @ Harelson's character @ the Hospital... sheeeit. you could feel that rage and pain.

Tom Waits had me dying too